preludium
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See also: prelúdium
English
Alternative forms
- praeludium, præludium (obsolete)
Etymology
From Latin praeludium.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pɹɪˈluːdiəm/, /-ˈljuːdiəm/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpɹəˈluːdiəm/
Noun
preludium (plural preludiums or preludia)
- (now rare) prelude, portent
- 1624 (first performance), John Fletcher, Rule a Wife and Have a Wife. A Comoedy. , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Leonard Lichfield , published 1640, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 3:
- Maybe they would learn to raiſe the picke. / I am for 'um. They are very modeſt; tis a fine preludium. […]
- 1717, Catcott, Samuel Croxall, John Dryden, Nicholas Rowe, Temple Stanyan, “Book XIII”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. , London: Jacob Tonson, , →OCLC, page 445:
- This Menelaus knows, expos'd to ſhare / With me the rough Preludium of the War.
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Probably from Latin praeludium
Noun
preludium n (definite singular preludiet, indefinite plural preludier, definite plural preludia or preludiene)
References
- “preludium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Probably from Latin praeludium
Noun
preludium n (definite singular preludiet, indefinite plural preludium, definite plural preludia)
References
- “preludium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from German Präludium, from Italian preludio, from Latin prae-ludo.
Pronunciation
Noun
preludium n
- (music) prelude (short, free-form piece of music, serving as an introduction to a longer and more complex piece)
- (music) prelude (short, stand-alone piece of music)
- prelude (introductory or preliminary performance or event)
Declension
Declension of preludium
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | preludium | preludia |
| genitive | preludium | preludiów |
| dative | preludium | preludiom |
| accusative | preludium | preludia |
| instrumental | preludium | preludiami |
| locative | preludium | preludiach |
| vocative | preludium | preludia |
Derived terms
adjective
Further reading
- preludium in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- preludium in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Swedish
Etymology
From Latin praeludium, cognate with German Präludium, based on praeludere, used in Swedish since 1734 (or perhaps 1615).
Noun
preludium n
- a prelude, an opening, an introduction (in music and literature)
- a preparation, a sign of things to come
- Såsom ett preludium till jul ingår ju första adventssöndagen.
- As a prelude to Christmas comes the first Sunday of Advent.
Declension
| Declension of preludium | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | preludium | preludiet | preludier | preludierna |
| Genitive | preludiums | preludiets | preludiers | preludiernas |